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In the midst of the festival tour, King will ... play a number of his own shows and hit the July 28 Crossroads Guitar Festival in Bridgeview, IL, as well as Rhode Island's Aug. 12 jNewport Jazz Festival. After the B.B. King Blues Festival wraps, the singer/guitarist will soldier on with solo dates from coast to coast through December. Details are listed below.
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Once when King was playing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, two men got into a fight and knocked over a heater, starting a fire that spread through the dancehall. King escaped the burning building, then remembered his sixty-dollar guitar and ran back in, nearly dying in an attempt to rescue it. When he discovered that the men who had started the blaze were fighting over a woman named Lucille, he gave the name to his guitar—"to remind myself never to do anything that foolish."
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Riley B. King aka B. B. King (born September 16, 1925) is a well known American blues guitarist and songwriter. One of King's trademarks is naming his guitars "Lucille", a tradition that began in the 1950s.
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There have been many Lucilles over the years, and Gibson has even marketed a namesake model with King’s approval. King selected the name in the mid-Fifties after rescuing his guitar from a nightclub fire started by two men arguing over a woman. Her name? Lucille.
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Riley B. King is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, widely considered one of the best and most respected blues musicians of all time. One of his trademarks is "Lucille", the name he has given to his guitars since the 1950s.
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Following 3 days after Bruce Springsteen's Asbury Park location concert, the Today Show didn't have to travel out of town to capture Carole King in her hometown environment. The New York City born singer/songwriter treated thousands of fans to a live concert as part of the show's Summer Concert series. Backed by Rudy Guess on guitar, Phil Robinson on guitar, Robbie Konder on keyboards, Shawn Pelton on drums, Zev Katz on bass, Sherry Goffin Kondor, Curtis King and Vanesse Thomas on backing vocals, fans who gathered early got to watch Carole's 60 minute plus pre-dawn rehearsal.
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